Viewing and Managing Communities and Community Membership
Communities are sites
within a portal designed for a specific audience or task, such as
collaborative projects. You might have communities
based on departments in your company. For example, the Marketing department
might have a community containing press information, leads volumes,
a trade show calendar, and so on. The Engineering department might
have a separate community containing project milestones, regulatory
compliance requirements, and technical specifications.
- To view the communities to which you belong, open the My Communities menu.
- To display a community, in the My Communities menu, click the community name.
- To join a community, in the My Communities menu, click Join Communities.
Tip: You can also join the community you are viewing
by clicking
Join this community.
- To unsubscribe from a community, in the My Communities
menu, click Unsubscribe Communities.
Tip: You can also unsubscribe from the community
you are viewing by clicking
Unsubscribe from this community.
- To display a page in the community, in the community title
bar, click the name of the page.
- To view the Community Knowledge Directory, in the community
title bar, click Community Knowledge Directory.
This link is available only if the community administrator has
enabled the Community Knowledge Directory. The Community Knowledge
Directory displays the members of the community, any subcommunities
of the community, and any other folders and contents the community
administrator added.
- To view the subcommunities to which you belong, open the Subcommunities menu.
This menu appears only if this community contains any subcommunities.
Subcommunities are separately secured subsections of a community.
For example, you might have a Marketing community that contains the
Advertising Subcommunity. The Advertising Subcommunity could have
distinct owners; or only a subset of the Marketing community might
be entitled to see the Advertising Subcommunity.
- To view a subcommunity, in the Subcommunities menu, click the subcommunity name.
- To create a new, blank page in the community you are viewing,
click Create Page.
- To edit the community page you are viewing (rename the
page, add, remove, or rearrange portlets), click Edit Page.